Amazon eyes a new prize: Amazon may be preparing a deal to buy Slack Technologies in a deal that could value the messaging startup group at more than $9 billion, TheStreetpoints out. With Microsoft's deal for LinkedIn being well-received, this deal seems logical for an Amazon that is aggressively expanding into the cloud.

One has to wonder though: why isn't Apple considering Slack or for that matter, Twitter . Each service would provide valuable insight into human behavior from which to build new products and services.